[Gaim-patches] [ gaim-Patches-1224108 ] Improving screenname accessibility

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Patches item #1224108, was opened at 2005-06-20 18:12
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Sadrul H C (sadrul)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Improving screenname accessibility

Initial Comment:
Hello.

This patch comes with a few tweaks in the
request-dialog system. Currently some of the dialogs
(eg. `Get User Info', `New Instant Message' etc) have
an auto-complete field for screennames of buddies. This
auto-complete list contains the list of buddies from
the accounts which are connected. However, it may be
necessary to get the list of screennames from all of
the accounts (even the disconnected/unconnected ones).
For example, in `View User Log' dialog, it is possible
to select a disconnected account, but the auto-complete
list for the screenames doesn't contain the names from
the disconnected accounts. This patch enables for that
to happen.

Some plugins also may need to have such an
auto-complete list for an entry. This functionality can
also be added to the `New Buddy Pounce' dialog, which
currently doesn't have any auto-completion support. So
I have `non-static'-ed a function so that plugins can
use that function without repeating the work which is
already there in the core.

This patch is against the oldstatus. If this does seem
like an appropriate way of doing things, I think I can
make necessary changes for it to work with HEAD as well.

-- Adil


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Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager)
Date: 2005-06-20 21:07

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The bulk of this patch is to make autocompletion of offline 
accounts possible. I've already done that (in a bit cleaner way) as 
part of patch 1180490. 
 
As for making this a public API function... This patch doesn't 
name the function properly, nor add documentation. 
 
As it stands, this isn't something ready to be accepted. 
 
sadrul: You should consider withdrawing this patch and doing the 
development on HEAD like I've just mentioned. That way you 
can apply my patch first. 
 

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